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Cream-throated White-eye
- Scientific name
- Zosterops atriceps
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Habitat
- Forest mixed
- Wing shape
- Rounded
- Tail shape
- Rounded
Where it came from
The Cream-throated White-eye, Zosterops atriceps, is a small passerine bird endemic to the Bacan and Halmahera islands in the North Maluku province of Indonesia. It was first formally described by the English ornithologist George Robert Gray in 1860. The species belongs to the Zosteropidae family, a group characterized by their prominent white eye-rings, which serve as a distinct evolutionary adaptation for social signaling within their forest habitats.
The bird's morphology, featuring rounded wings and a rounded tail, is consistent with its niche as a highly mobile, insectivorous canopy dweller within the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot. Its plumage is primarily olive-yellow with a notable dark throat patch, distinguishing it from related white-eye species in the region. As a member of a genus noted for high levels of endemism on isolated islands, the species remains a subject of ongoing study regarding the historical biogeography of the Moluccas.
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